Molly Ball: “The Home has had no speaker since Gaetz made a movement to vacate the place, then joined on Oct. 3 with seven different Republicans and 208 Democrats to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the function. Rep. Jim Jordan, the archconservative Ohio Republican whom Gaetz calls a mentor, this week failed on three ballots to safe the vast majority of the physique’s votes, shedding help on every roll name after which bowing out of the race Friday afternoon. Nobody else appears to have a transparent path to 217 GOP votes for the place.”
“Lots of his colleagues blame Gaetz for the paralysis and acrimony which have ensued. When Gaetz rose to talk in a closed-door get together assembly on Thursday, McCarthy informed him to ‘sit your ass down,’ and one other Republican, Rep. Mike Bost of Illinois, cursed and lunged at Gaetz.”
